Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
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Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news, including the CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora (5:11), the FIgure AI robot (12:26), Devin, the first AI software engineer (38:17), and more!
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(0:00) Sunny joins Jason for a fun AI day!
(2:08) Elon and open source Grok vs “Closed” AI.
(5:11) The CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora.
(9:28) Exploring the fascinating AI robot from Figure.
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(12:26) Comparing the FIgure AI robot and what we have seen from Boston Dynamics and why this is impressive.
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(21:10) Thinking about how humans learn and applying that to AI.
(28:28) The idea that robots may one day be 1:1 with humans.
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(32:01) New bet alert! And it’s a major one. Sunny and JCal bet on how soon we will all have access to AI robots in our homes!
(38:17) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer!
(40:24) The “maestro” concept when working with AI.
(47:21) Hot news: Apple in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI Features.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, January 1st, 2027, a humanoid robot will be available for purchase. |
| 0:05.2 | Yes. And delivery. Yes. You can have it in your home. You can buy it and have it in your home. |
| 0:11.1 | By January 1st, 2027. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay. |
| 0:16.0 | And you're asking me. |
| 0:18.0 | No, the bet is... |
| 0:19.0 | I take the over or the under is my... |
| 0:20.0 | Well, yeah, you take over under, but no, of both. And whoever's right, the other person buys the robot for that person. |
| 0:28.4 | Wow, this is the largest bet in the history of this week and services. |
| 0:32.1 | This 20 grand on the line here. |
| 0:33.8 | What are we doing here on this podcast? |
| 0:35.8 | I mean, this is getting out of control. |
| 0:38.0 | This is a big major bet. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a big bet. |
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| 0:54.0 | Gusto is easy online payroll, benefits, and HR built for modern small businesses. |
| 1:01.0 | Get three months free when you run your first payroll at gusto.com slash |
| 1:06.2 | twist and Adio a radically new CRM for the next era of companies. |
| 1:13.0 | Head to Adio.com slash Twist to get 15% off for your first year. |
| 1:18.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to this week and startups. |
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